{"id":17272,"date":"2018-04-13T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/playing_minecraft_on_nintendo_switch_will_soon_net_you_xbox_live_achievements"},"modified":"2018-04-13T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T15:30:00","slug":"playing-minecraft-on-nintendo-switch-will-soon-net-you-xbox-live-achievements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/04\/13\/playing-minecraft-on-nintendo-switch-will-soon-net-you-xbox-live-achievements\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing Minecraft On Nintendo Switch Will Soon Net You Xbox Live Achievements"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/playing_minecraft_on_nintendo_switch_will_soon_net_you_xbox_live_achievements\/attachment\/0\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/playing_minecraft_on_nintendo_switch_will_soon_net_you_xbox_live_achievements\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"minecraft.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>We all know that the Switch doesn&#8217;t have a built-in achievement system, and the debate over whether or not it would benefit the console will likely go on for some time, but this news throws a very interesting addition into the mix.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft and Mojang have confirmed that, once the game&#8217;s Bedrock update has gone live, players will be able to earn achievements tied to Xbox Live by playing the <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/minecraft_nintendo_switch_edition\">Nintendo Switch version<\/a> of the game.\u00a0Thanks to this Bedrock update, Minecraft is being united across a whole bunch of platforms, with achievements and other features such as cross-platform play being available across all supported versions.<\/p>\n<p>The achievements for the Nintendo Switch version of the game were first spotted by content creator <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PMaka1991\/status\/984274338298941440\">Patrick Mata<\/a>, who tweeted the following image.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Looks like the Nintendo Switch version of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Minecraft?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Minecraft<\/a> will have achievements! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K7wGhcnDZJ\">pic.twitter.com\/K7wGhcnDZJ<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Patrick Maka (@PMaka1991) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PMaka1991\/status\/984274338298941440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 12, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It&#8217;s nice to see Microsoft and Nintendo allowing this to happen, and perhaps presents more questions as to why Sony refuse to take part in cross-platform fun. Either way, if you have an Xbox Live account, and you have Minecraft on Switch, you&#8217;ll finally be able to earn some achievements &#8211; just not in the way you ever imagined!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know that the Switch doesn&#8217;t have a built-in achievement system, and the debate over whether or not it would benefit the console will likely go on for some time, but this news throws a very interesting addition into the mix. Microsoft and Mojang have confirmed that, once the game&#8217;s Bedrock update has gone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}